Faculty and Staff
PATRONS | MIRA & AJAY SHINGAL
Founders of Center for Dharma Studies
"We need places where religion is respected and taught openly, and for us there is no place that does this better than the GTU." - Ajay Shingal
CDS STUDENTS
Doctoral Candidates
Aaron Grizzell
PhD in Historical and Cultural Studies of Religion
Sara Ivanhoe
PhD Religion and Practice
Kypros Koutsokoumnis
PhD Historical and Cultural Studies of Religion
Cross-Cultural Theories of Aesthetics That Deal With the Sacred
Victoria Price
PhD Historical and Cultural Studies of Religion
The Impacts of Modernization on the Hindu Student/Teacher Relationship
Parameshwaran Ramakrishnan
PhD Theology and Ethics
Proposing a Contemplative-Neuroscientific Hermeneutic Methodology for Comparative-Theological Studies and its Application in Clinical Spiritual Care (Chaplaincy) Education and Medical Ethics: Towards a "Spiritual Psychiatry" Subspecialty.
Zipei Tang
PhD Religion and Practice
Yoga Cosmology and the Feminine Principle
PhD Students
Bart 'Bharatdas' Abbott
PhD Historical and Cultural Studies of Religion
Amit Bose
PhD Theology and Ethics
Wolf Gordon Clifton
PhD Theology and Ethics
Dharmic ecotheology: Hindu and Buddhist perspectives on climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution.
Charissa Jaeger-Sanders
PhD Theology and Ethics
Comparative Theology: Examining the common threads between the Judeo-Christian and Hindu faiths using an inter-religious, dialogical, and philological lens.
Athena Lalitā
PhD Historical and Cultural Studies of Religion
Kali (Meera) Tanikella
PhD Historical and Cultural Studies of Religion
Juxtaposing Enlightenment and Dharma: Comparing the Concept of Disjunctive Individualism with Deep Interconnectedness as it Relates to Gender
MA Students
Trykie J. Fernandes Caberto
MA Hindu Studies
Somanjana Chatterjee
MA Hindu Studies
Maurena McKee
MA Hindu Studies
Kristine Bell
Interreligious Chaplaincy Program
Mahendra Singh
Hindu Studies Certificate
Alumnx
Cogen Bohanec
PhD Historical and Cultural Studies of Religion
A Constructive Eco-theology of Kṛṣṇa Bhakti by applying the Methodologies of Eco-feminist/Animal-Rights Theology.
Laura Dunn
PhD Historical and Cultural Studies of Religion
Neocolonial Developments in Śākta Tantra
Pravina Rodrigues
PhD Theology and Ethics
Method in Comparative & Interreligious Theology
Janani Carpenter
MA Yoga Studies
The Teaching Tradition of Advaita Vedanta
Stephanie du Pont
MA Yoga Studies
Noel Heyden
MA Hindu Studies
Analyzing Desire in the Bhagavad Gita
Nimisha Nair
MA Hindu Studies
Understanding Ecology through the Theology of Advaita Bhakti
Laura Prickett
MA Yoga Studies
Comparison of Experiences and Outcomes of Yoga Practices
Adriel Ramirez
MA Hindu Studies
Exploring Love Mysticism Within the Gaudiya Vaisnava Tradition